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3 Episodes 1995 - 1995
Episode 1
Sat, Jul 1, 2006101 mins
Wellington is preparing for his push into France from Spain. A Spanish partisan leader offers to exchange 52 British deserters he has captured for 50 rifles, a deal Wellington agrees to. Sharpe is given command of the party that will make the exchange. With him is a contingent of provosts, lead by an officer that Sharpe detests. A cousin of Wellington, with her daughter, is looking for her husband who went missing in the vicinity, searching for Aztec treasure.

Episode 2
Sat, Jul 8, 2006100 mins
Wellington is handed the Spanish King's Royal bodyguard, the Royal Irish Company, to bolster his forces but it's not a welcome gift. They are inexperienced, untrained and ill-equipped, making them a liability in battle. Wellington posts them as close to the French as possible. He also attaches an officer to train them...Sharpe. Both of these are intended to convince them to leave his army. Once At the outpost Sharpe runs into a newly-made French foe, the ruthless, murderous Brigadier Loup, "The Wolf".

Episode 3
Sat, Jul 15, 2006101 mins
Sharpe captures a French officer who appears to be a captain but who is in fact Colonel Leroux, sent to the area to hunt down Spanish spymaster El Mirador. When the South Essex reach their destination the Frenchman escapes to a nearby French fort. The South Essex now plan to storm the fort.
